{"id":436488,"date":"2026-08-19T03:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-wednesday-august-19-2026-436488\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:11:07","slug":"economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-wednesday-august-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-wednesday-august-19-2026-436488\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic and event calendar in Asia Wednesday, August 19, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Wage Price Index rose 0.8% in Q1 2026, matching expectations. Private-sector wage growth kept slowing to the softest annual pace this cycle (3.2%), while public-sector gains cooled also.\u00a0Q2 is expected to look similar. Q3 might heat up, the mimimum wage increase will feed through, but that&#8217;s an issue for later!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Wage Price Index rose 0.8% in Q1 2026, matching expectations. Private-sector wage growth kept slowing to the softest annual pace this cycle (3.2%), while public-sector gains cooled also.\u00a0Q2 is expected to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}